2023-10-01 12:59:00
Only 68% of Walloons plan to vote. One of the causes put forward: too large a number of ministers.
According to figures from the RTL info, Ipsos, Le Soir barometer, there are more and more abstainers in Belgium. Only 68% of Walloons plan to vote, this is partly because of too many ministers. Precisely, the presidents of the MR, the PS and Ecolo are proposing to go from five to one minister in the Wallonia-Brussels federation. On the set of It’s not every day Sundayparty representatives are debating this new measure.
Georges-Louis Bouchez, Paul Magnette and Jean-Marc Nollet have just announced that the number of ministers will decrease in the Wallonia-Brussels federation. From five to one. He will remain the minister-president. If there are others, they will have double hats. That is to say, they will also be ministers to the Walloon region or the Brussels region.
Sophie Rohonyi, DéFi federal deputy, basically agrees: “We must reduce the number of ministers and parliamentarians.” In terms of form, on the other hand, she believes that it will “put sectors in difficulty” because we will have to “double the infrastructures”. In other words, she says that we will need two administrations where there is currently only one and that it then risks costing more.
To this, Diana Nikolic, Walloon MR MP, responds that “these are reflexes of the past”. She argues: “The objective of this reform is that it does not cost more, but that we spend the money better. Move towards more efficiency, so that it is more readable. We are not going to split if there is a way to work.”
On the side of the PTB and the Walloon MP Germain Mugemangango, we join DéFi and we are worried regarding the duplication. Rather, he suggests going further and “re-federalizing” certain skills. He takes the example of health: “If we re-federalize health, it will save us 8 ministers.” However, this solution remains very unlikely. We know that parties from the north of the country are absolutely not in favor.
Jean-Luc Crucke, Walloon MP and member of the Engagés, is more favorable to this decision: “There is a step that has been taken. It is a good decision, even if it must be confirmed by the Parliament.” He still has a small reservation: “I regret that the opposition was not involved.” He says that a party president was once morest it and makes it clear that he is the president of the Liberals.
Concretely: teaching, culture, audiovisual and research would remain with the Wallonia-Brussels federation, youth aid, justice centers, early childhood, the civil service, health and training would go to the regions. For sport, doubt persists.
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